The annual LGBT celebration kicks off next week. Clear your diary because Stonewall’s week-long celebration of LGBT equality kicks off on Monday. Running from 2 – 8 October, Stonewall Season aims to bring communities together, empowering people to come out in support of LGBT inclusion by organising a range of events, including bake sales, […]
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Lesbian Box Office launches the inaugural LBO Script Development Award in association with the DIVA Literary Festival We can’t get enough of Lesbian Box Office, the brand new channel dedicated to brilliant lesbian and bisexual content. It’s where we go to watch Different For Girls, one of the best queer web series […]
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“I despise homophobia and I regret that my song has triggered any divisiveness.” US comedian and singer, Mark Silverman has spoken exclusively to Out News Global following the controversy surrounding one of his satirical songs. Watch video: WARNING adult content. Courtesy of Mark Silverman In June, a gay couple from London […]
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A gay couple are questioning whether magistrates in Stratford are homophobic after they ruled that a song labelling gay men as “fairies” and “fags” was not offensive. Nick Fiveash, 61, and his partner, from east London, took their neighbours to court, alleging they had performed a song littered with homophobic slurs […]
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Stroke. Pull. Cox. There, we got the rowing puns out the way early! The front cover of the 2018 Warwick Rowers calendar has been revealed, along with lots of athletic naked blokes mucking about with water pistols, grapes and what appears to be bed linen. The cover of this year’s calendar […]
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Gay and trans people are reportedly being rounded up by Police in Azerbaijan and then humiliated and tortured. Pictures posted on social media showed men and women being physically assaulted and manhandled by police officers, reflecting behaviours seen in Chechnya earlier this year. Despite homosexuality being legal in Azerbaijan, it seems […]
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A powerful new theatre piece exploring untold stories of homelessness and at risk LGBT youth Created by Alexis Gregory out of interviews conducted with Albert Kennedy Trust service users, Safe is a brand new theatre piece which combines young people’s verbatim testimonies with live music and poetry. We spoke to Safe […]
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Polls find that 72% of those who have already voted have voted ‘yes’ Out of those Australians who have already voted on marriage equality, 72% have voted ‘yes’ compared with 26% who have voted no, according to the latest Guardian Essential Poll. If the official results reflect this initial survey, there […]
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Out News Global’s Editor-at-large: Andy West still feels bad about the girl he made cry in bed For most of us, our ‘coming out story’ is about how we felt, what we hoped for and how other people’s reactions made us feel. But recording the latest episode of a new podcast […]
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A woman famous for giving Barbie dolls “makeunders” created the family to publicise support for Australian marriage equality Betty Strachan-Otter, owner of All the Little Dolls, created the family to show support for marriage equality in Australia. Her post comes ahead of the postal vote on same-sex marriage which is currently taking […]
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